The Foundry will be hosting a Nuke User’s Group at SIGGRAPH2009 on Monday August 3rd.
Places are limited, so REGISTER NOW to reserve your space and see how VFX professionals from Laika, Digital Domain and Blue Sky Stuidos have been using Nuke. In addition, The Foundry team will be taking you through new developments and features in Nuke 5.2, Nuke 6.0 and NukeX 6.0. We will also give you a peek at Ocula 2 – the latest incarnation of our stereoscopic plug-in toolset for Nuke.
They’ve got a great lineup including Ben Fischler of LAIKA/house, Paul Lambert of Digital Domain, and Ari Rubenstein of Blue Sky Studios.
Read after the break for the full announcement and details.
The Foundry is happy to invite you to their Nuke User Group at SIGGRAPH on Monday 3rd August.
Places are limited, so REGISTER NOW to reserve your space and see how VFX professionals from Laika, Digital Domain and Blue Sky Stuidos have been using Nuke. In addition, The Foundry team will be taking you through new developments and features in Nuke 5.2, Nuke 6.0 and NukeX 6.0. We will also give you a peek at Ocula 2 – the latest incarnation of our stereoscopic plug-in toolset for Nuke.
The User Group is at Le Petit Theatre and starts at 5pm (registration from 4pm) with beer and nibbles afterwards.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Best wishes
The Foundry Team
Ben Fischler, Visual Effects Supervisor
LAIKA/houseBen Fischler will discuss how LAIKA/house is using Nuke 5.1 in a fast-paced, quick-turnaround commercial production environment to complement existing post-production processes. He will offer insights on how Nuke aided the post-production work in the creation of content for a collection of iconic brands and their different mediums.
Paul Lambert, Compositing Supervisor
DIGITAL DOMAIN
In the course of creating the Oscar-winning CG head for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Digital Domain’s compositors were challenged with seamlessly blending live action and CG. Lighting was particularly complex, as Benjamin is lit with candle light, full sunlight, and everything in between. Compositing Supervisor Paul Lambert will describe the HDR pipeline he built from on-set data that included more than 100 different HDR setups, and demonstrate the physically-based lighting tools developed to generate automatic, photo-real results.
Ari Rubenstein, Senior Compositor &
Matt Wilson, Lighting TD
BLUE SKY STUDIOS
Blue Sky Studios will present a short documentary film based upon the integration and evolution of Nuke on its latest feature “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”. The film will showcase the development of a unique toolset which aided in the transition of compositing at Blue Sky from a mechanical “fix-it” methodology, to a considerably more creative one.You can now download Nuke 5.1v6 from our website. This is a point release addressing the problems experienced by users after the Mac OSX 10.5.7 upgrade. This also fixes the known issue with EXRs on Windows XP64 with old AMD Opteron machines. It is a standard maintenance release, and available to anyone with valid maintenance. DOWNLOAD NOW. To renew your maintenance please email[email protected].
Not going to SIGGRAPH and bored of all this New Orleans chat, but looking forward to IBC? Why not REGISTER FREE for the show. SelectCUSTOMER TICKET, choose The Foundry and enter registration code 10399. IBC takes place this year in Amsterdam from 11th to the 15th September in the RAI. You’ll find us on stand 7-F28. We’re lining up some great people to demo and will have plenty for you to see. Nuke 6.0, NukeX 6.0, Ocula 2, RollingShutter and more…
